(27-04-2013 03:47 PM)cheapthrillseaker Wrote: It was your reaction more than anything that promted me to watch it.

I must say, the musical accompaniment was superb! I wonder if it was just stock music or did the producers ask the composer "I am looking for a music score for two slugs mating".

You should have seen my face while I was watching it... it almost hurt

Music should have been louder - 'cause the sounds they were making was just... oh well, I'll be going to bed relatively soon, I'd better expunge it from my head. If someone's gonna be having sex in my dreams, it sure as hell shouldn't be slugs

The reproductive cycle of bees is fascinating - and complex. But here's the short story: a queen is selectively bred in a special "queen cell" in the hive and fed royal jelly by worker bees to induce her to become sexually mature.

A virgin queen that survives to adulthood without being killed by her rivals will take a mating flight with a dozen or so male drones (out of tens of thousands eligible bachelors in the colony). But don't call these drones lucky because during mating, their genitals explode and snap off inside the queen!

Strange as it is, this actually makes evolutionary sense: the snapped-off penis acts as a genital plug to prevent other drones from fertilizing the queen. But tell that to the dead drone whose penis just exploded.

"IN THRUST WE TRUST"

"We were conservative Jews and that meant we obeyed God's Commandments until His rules became a royal pain in the ass."

The next critter on the list is a flatworm, which fights other flatworms using its penis. The ritual is sometimes referred to as penis fencing.

Like slugs, flatworms are hermaphrodites, meaning that they have both mail and female sex organs. When a pair square off to mate, they engage in a duel where they each flatworm attempts to stab the other one with their penises (flatworms have at least two peckers). The winner gets off scott free. The loser is inseminated and is stuck with the responsibility of parenting the offspring

"IN THRUST WE TRUST"

"We were conservative Jews and that meant we obeyed God's Commandments until His rules became a royal pain in the ass."